WordPress Access Keys
April 22nd, 2004
Since all but one of the default admin menu titles start with a different letter, a simple Access Key system could be set up:
| Menu Item | Access Key |
| Post | p |
| Edit | e |
| Categories | c |
| Links | l OR i |
| Users | u |
| Options | o |
| Templates | t |
| My Profile | m |
| View Site | v |
| Logout | l OR g |
Links and Logout are the only problem.
I easily saw how to set this up for the My Profile page, but I’m not familiar enough with PHP to attempt it with the others.
Wouldn’t it better to use numbers and symbols to avoid keyboard conflicts with the browsing agent?
I realize that older versions of Opera don’t support numbers and symbols and I also realize that screen readers and other assistive technology can have custom key mappings but it seems safer to remove one avoidable source of conflict, even though it doesn’t conform with the MSWindows UI.